Interview with Mariuna Morrison and Frederica Danielus, 1 December 2017 (Part 2)

Interviewer 1: Ian Post
Narrator 1: Mariuna Morrison
Narrator 2: Frederica Danielus "Fritz"

Topic: Salisbury University History

Keywords: Women's athletics, sexism, basketball, swimming, athlete, she gulls,
competition, originals

Intro: Continuing: Mariuna was one of the original physical education teachers at
Salisbury University. She oversaw the women's athletics such as basketball and
swimming. She took the women's basketball team to compete in California which
was unheard of during the time. She is joined by Fritz, her lifelong friend and past
student at Salisbury University.

Ian: Did you prefer basketball to field hockey? You taught both but you've

talked a lot about basketball.

Mariuna: That's really what I started out here I guess with basketball. I knew more

about basketball than I did field hockey, by chance I knew a lot. This boy
that I was talking about...he was pitiful. He really was. He was not the
brightest one in the world. But we treated him just like he should be
treated, you know. By then I mean he needed help and we tried to give it
to him. He was not too bright. That's okay, we didn't care. We helped best
we could. I guess we helped him enough. But he was always having
problems.

Ian: Well thank you for talking today. I really appreciate it.

Mariuna: Well we had a good...Doctor...Good old doctor...I couldn't have done...I

couldn't have been the one that...I was lucky. I was lucky the people that
helped me do....I was lucky that my sister was ahead of me and pure
accident that Doctor...Lithia was there at the right time to help me. I was
very fortunate to have Ben and he was kind to me. I was lucky. It's funny
because, it's not funny at all, but funny that they were there to help me
and I was fortunate. I was fortunate with the PE department there. I think
of any person we had there, the girls that were there they were fortunate.
It was wonderful. I don't know how many students we had then there but
we were very fortunate that we had students. It was fun. It wasn't bad. I
was under two presidents at least so I was fortunate with that too. Can't
ask for anything better.

Ian: Well I appreciate you telling your stories.

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